Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes: Third Edition - Paperback
Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes: Third Edition - Paperback
Description
by Donald Frantz (Author), Norma Jean Russell (Author)
The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken by thousands in Alberta and Montana. This third edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary adds more than 1,100 new entries, major additions to verb stems, and the inclusion of vai, vii, vta, and viti syntactic categories. It contains more than 5,500 Blackfoot-English entries and an English index of more than 6,000 entries, and provides thorough coverage of cultural terms. The transcription uses an official, technically accurate alphabet and the authors have classified entries and selected examples based on more than 46 years of research.
Author Biography
Donald G. Frantz is a professor of Native American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Lethbridge.
Norma Jean Russell is a graduate of the Native American Studies program at University of Lethbridge, and is a native speaker of Blackfoot.
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